Criminal History Repository Unveils New Technology for Local Law
Enforcement

Instant Information Network for Sex Offenders, Missing Kids

The Department of Motor Vehicles and Public Safety, Highway Patrol Division is
pleased to announce the delivery of TRAK (Technology to Recover Abducted Kids) to
virtually every law enforcement jurisdiction in Nevada. Nevada is the first
state to deploy TRAK systems statewide. This new technology will bring enhanced
communication and photographic imaging capabilities to the Nevada Sex Offender/Crimes
Against Children Registry Program located within the State's Criminal History Records
Repository. Additional uses of the TRAK System are to support law enforcement
efforts in the recovery of missing children, wanted criminals and stolen/recovered
property. Sixty-one TRAK Systems were purchased by the Repository utilizing $425,000 in
federal grant funds from the US Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics and
augmented by $114, 956 in State Repository provided funds.

TRAK is the first and only imaging and communications system that enables any law
enforcement officer to easily prepare and immediately distribute high-quality photo images
of anyone-a sex offender registrant, a missing or abducted child, and endangered runaway,
a violent criminal-to anyone-other police agencies, the broadcast media, schools,
businesses and neighborhood groups. Simultaneous electronic distribution of images
in minutes, not the many hours or days it use to require, means law enforcement can be
informed and mobilized in the first critical minutes.

Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa strongly endorses TRAK.
"We live in the age of the Internet," she says. "TRAK will allow
state law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada to better coordinate, communicate, and
cooperate in their efforts to find missing or abducted children. TRAK will also
serve as an extremely useful tool in many other instances. TRAK translates into
greater protection and safety for the citizens of Nevada."

Dennis DeBacco, Program Manager for the Criminal History Records
Repository, says "The TRAK System deployment comes after many months of hard work by
the Repository staff. While it is a pleasure to be able to provide support to local
law enforcement in their crime fighting efforts, the Repository's primary interest in TRAK
is to provide notification to local law enforcement when a Sex Offender/Crimes Against
Children Registrant moves into their jurisdiction."

The TRAK-RSO technology was developed by Social Tech, a nonprofit
organization in Burlingame, California. Launched in 1996, TRAK is currently in use
at more than 160 sites in California, with additional sites in Colorado, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania and
Texas. Additionally, TRAK Systems are used by the National Center for Missing &
Exploited Children and America's Most Wanted in Washington D.C.

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Note: TRAK was announced to the public at News Conferences in
Las Vegas and Reno on February 26th, 1999.